Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 117
At such times the chief’s retainers quietly carried away the body, while the shouts which greeted the victor filled the air.
Who acts: retainers, victor · What happens: carry away, shout, greet, fill · To what, where: body, air · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (retainers, victor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carried | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retainers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 chief | case |
| 7 | retainers | retainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carried | nsubj |
| 8 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shouts | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 shouts | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shouts | det |
| 16 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | conj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 greeted | nsubj |
| 18 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shouts | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 victor | det |
| 20 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | nsubj |
| 21 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 greeted | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past | the chief's retainers | the body | time | away, quietly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | the chief's retainers not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | which nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fill | past | the victor | the air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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